Oil-burner.



'PATENTED MAR. 12

J. G, FITZSIMMONS.

OIL BURNER. APPLICATION 11.31) D30. a1, 1906.

WITNESSES:

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having reference to the accompanying draw- 1 UNITE STAT JAMES o. FrrZsmMoNs, o

F OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Applicationfiled December 31,1906. $eria1 No, 350,280.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. FITZSIM- MONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Burners, 0 which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to oil-burners. Its

object is to provide a burner of simple construction and improved efficiency, wherein a flame may be directed to one side or the other of the axial line of the burner, if desired, also to provide a burner whereby a fan-shape flame or a straight-shot or any other desired shape of flame may be obtained or whereby a split'or divided flame may be had, if needed.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and the combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed,

in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of an oil-b urner embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the burner on the clamp-screws. Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows the application of the burner in a furnace having a long narrow fire-box. 6 is a sectional view of the line X X of A represents a burner head or tip provided with the respective oil and steam passages 2 3. The front end of this head or tip is made with a horizontally-bifurcated rounded nose portion a, and the passages 2 3 extend forward into the forks of this projecting nose and open at opposite sides into the space formed between the upper and lower portions of the nose.

4 is a deflector and spreader setting in the recess formed between the upper and lower forks of the nose. This spreader and deflector constitutes, in conjunction with the slotted nose, my invention and consists of a disk having upper and lower annular flanges 4, which flanges inclose the recesses 5. The recesses 5 are registrable with the respective discharge-openings of the passages 2 3 when the disk is in operative position in the burner. The slot in the burner-head is sufficiently large to allow of the ready insertion and removal of this spreader and deflector member 4, the head being split, as shown at 6, behind the recess which receives the deflector 4 to ings,

'\ charge, if necessary,

1 give sufficient springiness to the head, so that 5 when the clamp-screws 7 are screwed down tight the member 4 will be tightly clamped in position in axial line with the dischargeorifices. of the passages 2 3.

The walls of the member 4 on each side of the central diaphragm are slotted, as shown I at 8 9, to provide respective outlets for the semicircular in conformity with the outline beyond the oil and steam. The slotted nose being made of the member 4 and projecting or greater than the diameter of the member 4'allows the latter to be set in position so as to discharge either straight ahead or to have an unobstructed discharge to either side of the axial line of the burner. This ability to adjust the disk 4 so as to get a lateral disis advantageous in some cases, as where it 15 not possible to place a burner in the center of a furnace or where two or more burners might advantageously be used in the same firebox.

The member 4 can be turned so as to discharge at any desired angle with respect to the axial line of the burner, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4.

In operation the oil and steam enter and pass through their respective passages 2 3, the oil striking the top of the disk 4 and passing thence out through the slot 8, whereupon it comes in contact with the steam. he the steam on striking the under side of the plate is deflected through the slot 9, whereupon the oil is spread out in the form of an inflammable vapor in the fire-box. By varying the shape and width of the slots or discharge-orifices 8 9 any desired shape may be given to the flame. By slitting the flanges of the member 4 quite a distance back a half-round flame is readily secured.

the burner is to be used in a furnace having a l long and narrow fire-box and it is desired to heat the same at both ends, the member 4 may have its upper and lower flanges slotted at opposite points, as shown at S 9, Fig. 5, so that the discharge will be divided and nearly at right angles to the axis of the .burner. In this case the burner would enter the furnace at one side and midway thereof and with one flame directed toward the front of the fire-box and another flame directed in the opposite direction toward the rear. Not only is this flanged disk turnable to send a l flame in any desired direction, but it is possiclamp-screws 7 a distance preferably equal to ITO a transverse slot and provided with upper I l mg with respective ble to use any one of a number of disks havinto said slot, a disk having upper and lower ing each a different character of slots 8 9, ac- J flanges, fitting in said slot, the space inclosed cording to the character of the flame to be by one of said. flanges registrable with the disproduced. Any one of said disks may be used charge-opening or said oil-passage and the in the same burner. space inclosed by the other of said flanges By having the disk or deflector clamped registrable with the discharge-opening of from the top by the screws 7, as shown, it said steam-passage, said flanges slitted to leaves the front end of the burner and deprovide respective oil and steam outlets, and ector entirely unobstructed, so that a more means for removably holding said flanged perfectly-shaped flame may be had, besides disk in position in said head, said disk being admitting of the use of a divided flame, as turnable in a plane at right angles to the axis just described. of the head whereby it may direct the flame Having thus described my invention, what to either side of the aXial line of the burner or I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patstraight ahead. ent, is 3. In an oil-burner, a forked head having 1. In an oil-burner,al1ead havingaroundrespective oil and steam passages opening ed, slotted, nose portion, said head having into the slot in the head, a deflector fitting in respective oil and steam passages opening said slot and having respective dischargeinto opposite sides of the slot in said nose orifices in communication with said oil and portion, a disk provided with annularflanges steam passages, said deflector being turnon the two sides fitting in said slot with the able in a plane at right angles to the axis of spaces bounded by the head, and means for compressing the forked portion of said head to grip said deflector to hold it in operative position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witof said oil and steam passlotted above and below egress of the oil and steam, I turnabiy mounted to direct the flame to either side of the axial line of the sages, said flanges the disk for the said disk being said flanges communicat- Il nesses. burner and means for securin said disk in i r position in the head. b JAMES FITZSIMMONS' 2. In an oil-burner, a burner-head having Witnesses:

S. H. NoURsE,

and lower oil and steam passages discharging J ESSIE O. BRODIE. 

